Scientists study in Granada changes in sea level and ocean streams in Western Pacific

In the last years, a series of campaigns have taken to study different oceanic areas. Data of each region are obtained by means of different methods, like drilling ocean subsoil from an oceanographic ship. The results of the successive campaigns of the ODP have allowed to increase the knowledge of earth´s crust and its evolution in the history of our planet. Moreover, especially in the last few years, they have made the study of climatic changes in the past possible, as well as the consequences of such changes in phenomenon as important for the environment as sea level variations and ocean stream trajectories. During the meeting that took place in the Faculty of Sciences of Granada they dealed with changes in sea level and variation patterns of ocean streams in Western Pacific, in the Coral Sea region, North-East Australia, in the recent geological past. In the same way, the results of an oceanagraphic campaign that took place in the winter of 2001 were discussed.

The meeting finished -Professor Juan C. Braga, from the Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the University of Granada, says — with two days of fieldwork in the province of Almería, during which rock out crops, which serve as an example in emerged areas, in land, of phenomenons similar to those observed in the subsoil of the western Pacific Ocean during the oceaonographic campaign, were visited.

Further information:
Juan Carlos Braga Alarcón. Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology.
Faculty of Sciences. Phone numbers: 958 248332; 958 246606
E-mail: jbraga@goliat.ugr.es